Giovana Lippi, Licensed Mental Health Counselor
- English
- Portuguese
Giovana Lippi is a licensed mental health counselor, holistic therapist, and educator dedicated to helping individuals and families reconnect with wholeness through an integrative approach to healing.
Her path into the mental health field was deeply personal. After experiencing postpartum depression following the birth of her first child—and facing similar symptoms after her second—Giovana began a long journey of personal therapy and self-discovery.
While therapy helped her gain significant insight into her emotional patterns and life experiences, Giovana realized that intellectual understanding alone was not enough. She often described her experience as having “a funnel in her head”—a great deal of awareness and insight—but feeling as though that understanding could not fully reach the body, where anxiety, trauma, and emotional pain were still stored.
This realization led her to explore mind–body approaches to healing, including trauma-informed care, psychosomatic therapies, lifestyle medicine, and nutritional psychology. At the same time, a profound spiritual awakening deepened her Christian faith and revealed powerful parallels between modern psychological theories and the transformative path described in the writings of the Apostle Paul.
Today, Giovana’s work integrates psychology, somatic awareness, and spiritual formation to support healing that addresses the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. She believes that true transformation happens not through isolated techniques, but through the restoration of internal alignment, meaning, and connection.
Through her clinical work, teaching, and writing, Giovana is passionate about helping people move beyond fragmentation and rediscover the possibility of living with greater clarity, resilience, and purpose.
• She is Brazilian and speaks native Portuguese.